Status Updates From The Empire of Gold (The Dae...

I have just finished chapters 33, 34, and 35.

the affection i hold for alizayd al qahtani makes me want to shred every passing page of his pov with my teeth like some sort of motherly woodchipper. you peel him away and there’s a repressed man inside, you peel that man away and there’s another repressed man, he’s just like this russian doll of repression. add the idealism and yearning and it's like the fictional equivalent of crack to me.

- [ ] Nahri transported to a mountain top with the Shedu and a peri is there to help. Rides the Shedu to speak with the peri’s.
- [ ] They want her to kill Dara since his being disrupts the balance. Give her a weapon that could kill him.
- [ ] Sobek takes Ali to underwater shipwrecks. Ali says he’s trying to get Nahri an army?
- [ ] Tells Jamshid everything, but drugged his tea so he couldn’t come

I have just finished reading chapters 30, 31, and 32.

- [ ] Dara now enslaved to Manizeh and she orders him to scourge anyone that’s not Daeva. Destroys the Ayaanle quarter. Tries fighting the curse so he doesn’t have to destroy Nari’s hospital 😭
- [ ] Zaynab surrenders before he enters the hospital. I think she realizes he’s enslaved again